Word: joliet
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...first the argot of anime (rhymes with Connie Mae) can sound as inscrutable as, say, Japanese to a guy in Joliet, Ill. But the only two words you need to know are anime, the Japanese animated films that are made for theaters, TV and home video; and manga, the graphic novels (upmarket comic books) on which most anime films are based. Together they dominate Japan's narrative media. Manga account for a third of all books published there, anime for about half the tickets sold to movies...
...rooms, meals and even cash.) But Harrah's is the first gambling company to link all 6 million of its slot-card holders together in a single computerized database so that they can accumulate points as they gamble and redeem them at Harrah's casinos from Reno, Nev., to Joliet, Ill., and Atlantic City. The Total Gold card is nothing less than a bold attempt to create the first national gambling "brand." "There is no question in my mind that we have the biggest database in the industry," says Harrah's president and CEO, Phil Satre. "It allows customization...
Christopher R. McFadden '97 of Eliot House and Joliet, Ill., was senior editor of The Crimson...
...prison system. Hoover held jailhouse meetings, dictated memos and issued orders into his cell phone. He wore $400 alligator boots, dined on specially prepared food and splashed himself with expensive cologne. Payoffs to corrections officers permitted his bodyguards to arm themselves with shanks and bedposts. At one prison near Joliet, they even bragged about having keys to every door in the facility except the one to the outside...
BORN: April 16, 1953, Chicago EDUCATION: Ripon College, 1971-73 FAMILY: Wife, Virginia; two children RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Real estate-company owner POLITICAL CAREER: Illinois House, 1989-95; sought Democratic nomination for U.S. House, 1994 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 3769, Joliet...